Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻

Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻

@bookscribbler.bsky.social

History Prof @ Durham University | Historian of Britain and the Atlantic world | w/ special interests in the global history of science, medicine and technology (including AI).

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STEMfem
@stemfem.bsky.social

10/2/1846 — b. Eliza Maria Mosher, American physician, educator, author. The first dean of wmn, Univ of Michigan; founder, American Posture League. Editor, Medical Wmn’s Journal (1905-28); wrote ‘Health & Happiness: A Message to Girls’(1912) #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #MedSky #HistMed #womenwriters

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Olivia Wyatt
@oliviawyatt1999.bsky.social

My article — “Black is Beautiful”: Gender, Pigmentation, and Political Blackness in Modern Britain — is now available to read! It reinserts the politics of complexion into our narratives of the Black Power and Black Women’s movements. #BlackBritishHistory academic.oup.com/histres/adva...

academic.oup.com‘Black is beautiful’: gender, pigmentation and political blackness in modern Britain*Abstract. By examining political literature, ephemera and oral histories, this article investigates the politics of pigmentation within the Black Power and

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Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻
@bookscribbler.bsky.social

My American Historical Review article about 19th-century African American doctor James McCune Smith has been published. Download it for FREE: doi.org/10.1093/ahr/... #history #blackhistory #data #womenshistory #histmed #histsci #bookhistory #STS @africanarchives.bsky.social

doi.orgThe Moral Doctor: Datafication, Activism, and the Early Medical Career of James McCune Smith in Late Georgian ScotlandAbstract. In the summer of 1836, the clinicians of Glasgow’s Lock Hospital treated the impoverished female patients with a painful new drug. The negative i
Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻
@bookscribbler.bsky.social

My American Historical Review article about 19th-century African American doctor James McCune Smith has been published. Download it for FREE: doi.org/10.1093/ahr/... #history #blackhistory #data #womenshistory #histmed #histsci #bookhistory #STS @africanarchives.bsky.social

doi.orgThe Moral Doctor: Datafication, Activism, and the Early Medical Career of James McCune Smith in Late Georgian ScotlandAbstract. In the summer of 1836, the clinicians of Glasgow’s Lock Hospital treated the impoverished female patients with a painful new drug. The negative i

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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM)
@sshmedicine.bsky.social

📣SSHM members 📣 Are you organising a #histmed #medhumanities conference later this year? A reminder that the next application deadline for conference funding is 1 June 👇

sshm.orgConference FundingThe Society for the Social History of Medicine awards financial assistance for conferences and workshops on the history of medicine.  Applicants should note that grants are not retrospectively…

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Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at York
@cecs-york.bsky.social

Congratulations to co-editors Rachel Feldberg, Matthew Daniel Eddy @bookscribbler.bsky.social & Jane Rendall on their excellent book. What a treat it was to celebrate this new publication, full of new and old friends of CECS, including recent PhD Dr Roseanna Kettle @roseannakettle.bsky.social

Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at York@cecs-york.bsky.social

📚 🥳 All welcome at our hybrid book launch for Gender, Science and Sociability in the Diary of Jane Ewbank of York (1778-1824), edited by Matthew Daniel Eddy, Rachel Feldberg and Jane Rendall (Boydell Press: 2026) 📚🥳 🗓️ Wednesday 13 May, 5pm 📍 H/G21, Heslington Hall 🔗 🎟️ www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...

york.ac.ukEwbank book launch 13 May - Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of YorkThe Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York, together with the book’s editors and contributors, cordially invite you to join them in person or online to attend a celebration of...
Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻
@bookscribbler.bsky.social

Looking forward to giving a talk this week on the media history of mental health. #hps #sts #history #hstm #childhood #mediahistory #britishhistory #mentalhealth #museums #manuscriptculture #printculture #psychiatry #psychology #imagination #emotion

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Royal Historical Society
@royalhistsoc.org

The @ihr.bsky.social has brought all its online resources - journals, @vch-home.bsky.social, OA book series, @bho.bsky.social, BBIH, @layersoflondon.bsky.social, and more - into one section of its website for easier access bit.ly/4cCrpUD. Much of this content is free to use online #Skystorians

bit.lyResources for HistoriansThe IHR offers a wide range of online resources and publications for historians. These pages introduce and provide access to these resources.

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Royal Historical Society
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Our 250 new Fellows and Members practice history in the UK / worldwide (in 16 countries in this today's intake). If you'd like to join them, please see our Join Us page bit.ly/4tHkAHH. Next closing dates for applications (for historians at all career stages and backgrounds) are 9 March & 11 May 2/2

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Modern British History Journal
@mbhjournal.bsky.social

We're recruiting a Book Reviews Editor! This is a great role for ECRs working in Modern British History (broadly defined). Details at the link below. Any questions, don't hesitate to get in touch with Hannah! 🗃️ academic.oup.com/tcbh/pages/c...

academic.oup.comCall for MBH Book Review EditorModern British History is seeking a Book Review Editor to replace Dr Shahmima Akhtar whose term of office is due to end in December 2024. The post involves
Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻
@bookscribbler.bsky.social

My JRCPE article about Dr Archibald Hewan and Glasgow's medical libraries is out! You can read it for FREE via the link. Hewan was the first black physician to serve as a missionary in Africa. #histstm #histsci #hps #BookHistory #churchhistory #AfricanHistory journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

journals.sagepub.comDr Archibald Hewan (1832–1883) and the University of Glasgow’s medical libraries - Matthew Daniel Eddy, Robert MacLean, Emma Yan, 2025Background: We provide historical context for the recently discovered University of Glasgow Library records of Archibald Hewan (1832– 1883), the first Black med...

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Rob Davies
@byrobdavies.bsky.social

Terrifying, maddening and utterly heart-breaking. Truly incredible journalism to expose and document this.

The Guardian@theguardian.com

Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world

theguardian.comInfluencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the worldA year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors As Esau Lopez was asphyxiated for the first 17 minutes of his life on Earth, the atmosphere in the room remained serene, even ecstatic. Acoustic music crooned from a speaker in a modest two-bedroom apartment in a suburb of Pennsylvania. “You are a queen,” murmured one of three friends in the room. Only Esau’s mother, Gabrielle Lopez, felt something was wrong. She was pushing hard, but her son would not be born. “Can you help [him] out?” she asked, as Esau crowned. “Baby is coming,” the friend replied. Four minutes later, Lopez asked again, “Can you grab [him]?” Another friend murmured, “Baby is safe.” Six minutes passed. Again, Lopez asked, “Can you grab [him]?” Continue reading...

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Monica H Green
@monicamedhist.bsky.social

I'll be using this data in the talk I'll be giving in February documenting that leprosy was already a global disease well before European expansion across the Atlantic & Pacific. For #histmed, this raises new questions: how did different societies *care* for the afflicted?

Monica H Green@monicamedhist.bsky.social

Okay, done. I've captured the leprosy genomes out of the aDNA pathogen database that Sikora et al. pub'd in July. As they noted in their own analysis, it's now been well documented that leprosy was circulating in N Europe thruout the Middle Ages, & seems to have been tied to trade in squirrel skins.

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Michael Barany
@mbarany.com

Excited for the launch of the ESHS/HSS 2026 Joint Meeting call for proposals, presented by Simone Turchetti and Sam Robinson at the General Assembly of the #ICHST2025 Hope to see you in Edinburgh in a year's time! hssonline.org/page/Edinbur...

hssonline.org2025 HSS Annual Meeting - History of Science SocietyThe 2026 European Society for the History of Science/History of Science Society Joint Meeting will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom. The conference theme will be Shifting Perspectives: Plural Worlds, Contested Sciences.
Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻
@bookscribbler.bsky.social

When it comes to cognitive abilities, ChatGPT is the Emperor‘s new clothes for university students. I do not understand why universities are not taking more active action to collectively counter the problem. #education #sts #hps #media #ai #data #humanities theconversation.com/mit-research...

theconversation.comMIT researchers say using ChatGPT can rot your brain. The truth is a little more complicatedLike calculators before them, AI tools can raise the bar for what people can achieve – if they’re used the right way.
Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻
@bookscribbler.bsky.social

For all the naysayers who predicted the digital death of annotation... #bookhistory #manuscripts #marginalia #reading www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

theguardian.comMarginalia mania: how ‘annotating’ books went from big no-no to BookTok’s next trendReaders are sharing how they write their predictions into novels, colour-code their emotional responses and even gift annotated books to friends. Is it actually fun, or just a bit like homework?

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The HPS Podcast
@hpspodcast.bsky.social

Very excited about the Call for Papers for the upcoming 2025 conference for the Australasian Association for History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science. Come join us in sunny Brisbane QLD this December!! It is always a wonderful event. #hps #histSTM #philsci #STS #metasci 🧪

AAHPSSS@aahpsss.bsky.social

Call for Papers - AAHPSSS Conference 2025 The 2025 AAHPSSS conference will be held in a hybrid format at the University of Queensland from Wednesday 3rd December to Friday 5th December. Further details, including on submissions, can be found on our website: aahpsss.net.au/conference/2...

aahpsss.net.au2025 ConferenceWe are pleased to announce that the 2025 conference of the Australasian Association for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (AAHPSSS) will be held in a hybrid format at the Univer…

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Alisa Bokulich
@alisabokulich.bsky.social

Call for papers: Women in Science: historical perspectives Conference 18 Nov. 2025 at Royal Society Submit proposals < 300 words, incl a biographical note of c.50 words) for 20-min papers to library@royalsociety.org subject line ‘proposal for conference paper’ Deadline: 30 June 2025 #HPS

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Linda Andersson Burnett
@lindaaburnett.bsky.social

Our book Race & the Scottish Enlightenment: A Colonial History 1750-1820 can now be pre-ordered (publication date is in August). @brucealexb.bsky.social yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... #skystorians #colonialhistory #enlightenment #histsci

yalebooks.yale.eduRace and the Scottish EnlightenmentHow colonialism shaped the Scottish Enlightenment’s conception of race and humanity   In the decades after 1750, an increasing number of former medical st...
Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻
@bookscribbler.bsky.social

Historians know that incorrect information becomes increasingly hard to fact check over time. We are sleep walking into an age of misinformation as we increasingly rely on AI to think for us. #histsci #hps #sts #bookhistory #data #history #journalism www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

theguardian.comChicago Sun-Times confirms AI was used to create reading list of books that don’t existOutlet calls story, created by freelancer working with one of the newpaper’s content partner, a ‘learning moment’
Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻
@bookscribbler.bsky.social

I'm currently researching the place of science in the early abolitionist movement's moral and legal arguments against enslavement. Today I came across this noteworthy observation: #histsci #histmed #hps #sts #philosophy #bioethics #blackhistory #publichealth

Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻
@bookscribbler.bsky.social

LIBRARIES OF SCIENCE CONFERENCE. 12 MAR 2025. I'll be speaking about the library habits of Dr Archibald Hewan, a black missionary physician who lived during the mid 19th century => royalsociety.org/science-even... #hstm #bookhistory #hps #sts #Africa

royalsociety.orgLibraries of science | Royal SocietyA conference celebrating the role of libraries as key locations of scientific knowledge, from the seventeenth century to the present day.